OTHER SOURCES OF SCHOLARSHIPS & TUITION ASSISTANCE
Nationwide
A Better Chance
Refers academically talented students entering grades 6 through 11 to some of the nation's finest independent and public schools to be considered for placement and financial aid.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Identifies and supports young people of exceptional promise, application, deportment, and character who have financial need and demonstrated excellence in academic endeavors and extracurricular activities.
Arizona
Arizona Scholarship Fund
Assists Arizona's families in providing their children with a private education.
Arizona School Choice Trust
Awards low-income families tuition scholarships to enable their children to attend private elementary and secondary schools (K-12).
California
Catholic Education Foundation
Provides scholarship assistance for children in Catholic schools in Los Angeles.
The Guardsmen Scholarship Program
Offers partial scholarships to local private schools for San Francisco Bay Area children to attend a school of parent/guardian choice.
The Independent Institute
Provides tuition assistance to low- to moderate-income families in Contra Costa and Alameda counties for K-12 private or parochial schools.
The Smart Program
Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team (SMART) provides middle school scholarships for children in San Francisco, as well as providing other social supports including summer programs, and high school placement assistance.
Connecticut
CEO of Connecticut
Provides scholarships for K-5 children in Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven.
District of Columbia
Black Student Fund
Assisting African-American students in the admissions process, making available scholarship grants, and providing essential services that allow students to focus on their education, complete high school and enter college.
Capital Partners in Education
Provides private high school scholarships for DC children.
Latino Student Fund
Competitive scholarships available to Latino students enrolled in private or parochial schools who receive financial aid from their schools.
Florida
Children First Florida
Provides private scholarships for low-income children in Florida.
Florida Pride
Provides private scholarships for low-income children in Florida.
Helping Educate Responsible, Outstanding, & Enlightened Students (H.E.R.O.E.S)
Families can request scholarships, but scholarships not guaranteed unless the organization has enough funds from donors.
McKay Scholarship Program
Provides scholarships for Florida students with disabilities.
Georgia
Georgia Special Needs Scholarship
Scholarships for children with disabilities who previously attended Georgia public schools.
Illinois
Big Shoulders Fund
Provides scholarships for children attending Chicago Catholic schools.
LINK Unlimited
Provides educational services (opportunities to receive quality private school education) and mentoring to economically disadvantaged African American youth from the Chicago area.
Kansas
Children First CEO Foundation
Privately funded scholarships, grades 1-12, to attend school of choice.
Kentucky
School CHOICE Scholarships, Inc.
Provides K-6 scholarships for low-income families in Louisville and Jefferson County.
Maine
Maine Children's Scholarship Fund
Provides scholarships to Maine children in K-12 to help pay for part of public, private or home school.
Minnesota
Minnesota Revenue
A tax credit may be available to Minnesota residents who pay for private school or homeschool their children.
New York
Futures in Education
Scholarships for families with limited resources get the help to send their children to Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens.
Inner-City Scholarship Fund
Provides funding to 86 elementary and 21 secondary schools in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Prep for Prep
Identifies talented students from minority group backgrounds, prepares them for placement in independent schools, and provides a sense of community, peer support, critical post-placement services, and a range of leadership development opportunities.
Student Sponsor Partners
Provides as many of New York City's at-risk high school youth as possible with an opportunity to receive a quality non-public high school education, through the financial support and one-to-one guidance of a four-year Sponsor.
Teak Fellowship
Helps talented New York City students from low-income families gain admission to and succeed at top high schools and colleges. Along with academic support, TEAK provides leadership training, exposure to the arts and outdoors, mentoring, career experience, and assistance with the high school and college application processes.
The Albert G. Oliver Program
Mission is to cultivate a new generation of leaders by providing exceptional youth of African and Latino American descent from New York City access to selective boarding and day independent schools and continued support for achieving their future academic and professional goals.
Ohio
Cleveland Scholarship Program
Gives scholarships to high school seniors, adult learners, and teachers.
Ohio EdChoice Scholarship Program
Provides a limited number of scholarships to Ohio students who attend persistently under-performing public schools.
Pennsylvania
CEO America, Lehigh Valley
Provides a 1-year scholarship for financially disadvantaged children in Pennsylvania to attend any public, parochial or non-public school of their choice.
Pennsylvania Children's Tuition Fund
Offers scholarships for private Christian schools in Pennsylvania through the Association of Christian Schools International
Philadelphia BAEO Scholarship Program
Parents in a growing number of cities and states have access to privately financed programs that support school choice by offering students partial scholarships.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Scholarship Alliance
Promotes educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged students through the Rhode Island Scholarship tax credit program.
Texas
Austin Children's Educational Opportunity (CEO) Foundation
Provides scholarships of $1000 per year for three years for at-risk students.
Vermont
Vermont Student Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Call (802) 879-7460 for Vermont scholarship opportunities or email vtsos@aol.com
Virginia
CHOICES Scholarship Fund
Scholarships of $1,000 are available on a competitive basis to provide financial aid to those who wish to attend, or a currently attending, a K-12 private school or tuition-charging, out-of-district public school. To qualify, students must be residents of the state of Virginia and of compulsory K-12 school age (generally age 5 to 18).
Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
Provides an opportunity for students, under specific circumstances, to attend at no charge, private sectarian and nonsectarian schools located in the city of Milwaukee.
PAVE
An independent non-profit foundation that makes excellent educational opportunities possible for Milwaukee families.
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